humanbn Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 One is a raspberry pi that won't have internet access. The other is a mobile phone that has btsync installed on it. I want to have the Pi grab the files from the mobile phone. Is this possible with the Pi only? No router? I was thinking of setting up the Pi as an AP, and connecting the phone to it. Doesn't seem like BTsync will pass anything to it though. Any ideas how this could work? The Pi basically is somewhere where Internet isn't available. I want to bring my mobile phone to the Pi and have it sync up the files automagically. Thanks for any ideas!Any think this solution will work? My Pi is on order, so haven't tried it yet: http://sirlagz.net/2012/08/09/how-to-use-the-raspberry-pi-as-a-wireless-access-pointrouter-part-1/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dms2013 Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Is the Pi connected to any network? Best solution for is to play the Pi into a wifi router and have phone join the same network. It will obviously only be syncing when both devices are in the vicinity of the router. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humanbn Posted December 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Thanks for your response. I wanted to do this without an additional router. I want the Pi to act as a router, and also run BTSync. Have the mobile connect to the Pi only, and the Pi receive the most up to date versions of the synced folder from the phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyTheSaint Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 It seems to me something is going to have to act as a router. In that case, you'd need a WiFi adapter for the Raspberry Pi. And then, is there a software router app for the phone? Or, if you set up your phone as a WiFi portable hotspot, is there some way the phone can be seen as a client with its own local ip that the Raspberry Pi can download from using something like AirDroid? Somehow, I doubt these things are possible, but perhaps there's something here worth looking into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humanbn Posted December 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Yes the Raspberry Pi will have a wifi adapter. I believe I can turn the Pi into a Wifi Router itself also. The phone would connect to the Pi Wifi Router. As long as the Pi and Phone both have local IPs on the same network, can they not work with BT Sync even without access to the Internet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 If they are in the same LAN/subnet, they will find each other if LAN sync is enabled in the options for the share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nils Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 As long as the Pi and Phone both have local IPs on the same network, can they not work with BT Sync even without access to the Internet?BTsync does not rely on internet access, if all you want is a LAN-only sync. However, devices need to be on the same subnet, e.g. 10.1.2.1 and 10.1.2.2 etc ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humanbn Posted December 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2013 Thanks guys. Got it working on LAN only. When the RPi comes in hopefully I can get it configured to work with just Pi and phone, no router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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